Exempt secretary was a
managementManagement in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading, directing, facilitating and controlling or manipulating an organization or effort for...
position in some organizations of governing position (such as the
Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the...
, CPSU) in the
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
.
Virtually every workplace in the Soviet Union had lower-level subdivisions of the three major Soviet organizations: the CPSU,
KomsomolThe Communist Union of Youth , usually called Komsomol ) , was the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Its full name since 1922 was Vsesoyuzny Leninskiy Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi...
, and Soviet trade unions. Heads of these organizations were titled "
secretaryA secretary is an administrative assistant in business office administration.The executive secretary has a myriad of administrative duties. Traditionally, these duties were mostly related to correspondence, such as the typing out of letters...
". For small organizational subdivisions the secretary was usually an employee of the corresponding workplace subdivisions.
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Exempt secretary was a
managementManagement in all business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading, directing, facilitating and controlling or manipulating an organization or effort for...
position in some organizations of governing position (such as the
Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the...
, CPSU) in the
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
.
Virtually every workplace in the Soviet Union had lower-level subdivisions of the three major Soviet organizations: the CPSU,
KomsomolThe Communist Union of Youth , usually called Komsomol ) , was the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Its full name since 1922 was Vsesoyuzny Leninskiy Kommunisticheskiy Soyuz Molodyozhi...
, and Soviet trade unions. Heads of these organizations were titled "
secretaryA secretary is an administrative assistant in business office administration.The executive secretary has a myriad of administrative duties. Traditionally, these duties were mostly related to correspondence, such as the typing out of letters...
". For small organizational subdivisions the secretary was usually an employee of the corresponding workplace subdivisions. For sufficiently large organizational subdivisions, the elected secretary was either temporarily relieved from his workplace duties, or, more frequently, was part of
nomenklaturaThe nomenklatura were a small, elite subset of the general population in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc...
and his salary was paid from the membership dues of the corresponding organization.